Editing John Wycliffe (section)

====''De officio regis''====
Wycliffe's stance against the papacy grew ever more extreme.{{what|date=April 2025}} Wycliffe's stand concerning the ideal of poverty became continually firmer, as well as his position with regard to the temporal rule of the clergy. 

Closely related to this attitude was his book ''De officio regis'', the content of which had been foreshadowed in his 33 conclusions: for example, that a trial before Parliament and Synod was necessary for excommunication, that the King should (intervene and) not authorize imprisonment as a sentence for excommunication.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wycliffe |first1=John |last2=Pollard |first2=Alfred W. (Alfred William) |last3=Sayle |first3=Charles |title=Tractatus de officio regis |date=1966 |publisher=New York [etc.] : Johnson Reprint ; Frankfurt am Main : Minerva |url=https://archive.org/details/tractatusdeoffic00wycl/}}</ref>{{rp|227-231}} This book, like those that preceded and followed, was concerned with the reform of the Church, in which the temporal arm was to have an influential part.  

From 1380 onwards, Wycliffe devoted himself to writings that argued his rejection of [[transubstantiation]], and strongly criticised the [[friars]] who supported it.<ref name="hudson">{{ cite book |last=Hudson |first=Anne |url=https://archive.org/details/prematurereforma0000huds |title=The premature Reformation: Wycliffite texts and Lollard history |date=2002 |publisher=Clarendon |isbn=978-0-19-822762-5 |location=Oxford |author-link=Anne Hudson (academic) |url-access=registration }}</ref>{{Rp|281}}